Re: indenting python docstring in vim

On Apr 3, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:

> Now, I'll dig into this and find which setting fixes the issues you see by gradually returning things in place. I'll narrow this down this evening probably.

I found what's causing this behavior.
My customizations for Python are not doing anything special.
The docstring is indented correctly even when ~/.vim is empty.

However, when I comment out one line in my .vimrc file the indentation changes.

It seems that you are missing this kind of setting in your ~/.vimrc file (I put it at the very end of that file):

if has("autocmd")
" Enable file type detection, plugins, and indentation rules.
filetype plugin indent on
" ^^^^^^ DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT THAT LINE ^^^^^^
" ...
" vvvvvv You mentioned you have something like this already vvvvvv
" C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python and Tcl indent.
autocmd FileType cpp,java,javascript,perl,python,tcl setl sw=4 sts=4 et
" ...
" vvvvvv I keep also this for doctests vvvvvv
" reStructuredText (Python doctest) indent.
autocmd FileType rst setlocal sw=4 sts=4 et tw=72
" When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |
\ execute "normal g`\"" |
\ endif
endif

*****
You must have "filetype plugin indent on" to get the indent to work properly.
It's best to wrap it in 'if has("autocmd") ... endif' sequence.
*****

That should solve your docstring indentation.

Couple of things that I keep in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/python.vim, but they can be defined in ~/.vimrc as well (if one is not sure how to write a plugin startup and cleanup parts):

These are useful to keep the indentation that conforms to PEP-8 style.

" Indent any continuation line 'shiftwidth' spaces
let g:pyindent_open_paren = '&sw'
let g:pyindent_nested_paren = '&sw'
let g:pyindent_continue = '&sw'

You can also add more highlight if you want:

" Highlight more
let python_highlight_all = 1

OK. I think this should help you.
Please, tell us if this solves your indentation problems.

Regards,

Zvezdan

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